what's happening???

Colleges too go for dress code from hindu

"Insisting that students dress "simply, decently and modestly," many colleges have banned sleeveless, short, tight-fitting, transparent outfits and, in some cases, even jeans and t-shirts."
...
""Indecent attire" invites adverse public reactions and incites sexual harassment of students,"


i don't know what the purpose of this system is... because i don't think the values of a 20 something years old can be changes by inflicting him/her with rules. at that age each of us are 'adults' and should be granted the freedom to decide what is moral/decent/appropriate. and please don't use sexual harassement as a reason. because thoes who harras are messed up anyway, so they should be corrected not the one being harrased.

A Tear Fell

A Tear Fell

I shed a tear today
Silently, I felt it fall
You caught it
shared it
held it
felt it
then
suddenlyit wasn't
so big
after all

--Marge Tindal
[via memory keeper]

higher education in india

Reconstruction of higher education in India
this is an old article from hindu, which is a follow up on an even older (higher education in india) article in hindu :)

Slow Dance

Slow Dance (by Anonymous)

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's
Erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into
The fading night?

You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?

You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,"hi"

You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

When you run so fast
To get somewhere
You miss half the fun of
Getting there.

When you worry and hurry
Through your day,
It is like an unopened gift
Thrown away.

Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

i have recieved this poem so many time in my mail but i love it none the less because it rings so true. we all are in a hurry to get to some place, do something and in all this we forget the importance of relationships and peoeple who have touched our lives and whoes lives we have touched. the little treasures that life gives us each day, the ones we just throw away, expecting to recieve it again tomorrow. but when tomorrow comes we see none.

online collection of books

http://www.classicreader.com/
this is a very good collection...

and i am sure everyone knows http://www.gutenberg.org/

and i like this one because this has a short list of authors whom i have read before http://www.literature.org/authors/
infact it also has some of charles darwins works that i wanted to read


i guess it is time to revisit some of these books :)

water and fire in mumbai

after the floods there is fire at ONGC platform near mumbai...

quotes

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
-- Susan Jeffers

Silence is a text easy to misread.
-- A. A. Attanasio

cross browser coding tips

Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla

i haven't gone through the entire page but has useful tips for people tying to develop web interface that are required to run on different browsers.

microsoft n money

Microsoft steps up piracy fight from bbc

"Anyone downloading updates for Windows XP will be required to check that their operating system is genuine.
Security updates are exempt from this in order to prevent people spreading viruses across the internet."
...
"Customers who discover that their copy of Windows is pirated have two options.
They can get a free version of Windows if they fill out a counterfeit report identifying the source of the software, providing proof of purchase and returning the counterfeit CD.
If they are unable to provide all the information, filling out a report will entitle them to receive a copy of Windows XP Home Edition for the reduced price of £56 or Windows XP Professional Edition for £86."

how intelligent :)

What do you suppose he thought would happen?

" A Texas man was arrested on Monday after calling police to complain about the theft of his marijuana, authorities said. "

quote :)

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
-- Bill Vaughn

Science & superstition

Science & superstition from hindu

"A group of space scientists had sought divine boost to a space vehicle by placing a replica of the rocket at the feet of a popular deity prior to its launch."

hmmm i do not think that trying to get 'blessing' is a problem, as long as they do not expect god to come down and fix the problems that exist in the space vechicle.
how can they forget that the karm that they do, will be the one's that give the results.

coool

Children take their case to court from Hindu

"Their classrooms were demolished on July 19 by the landowner following a dispute with the school management. "

thought

never have i tried so hard to understand something, and understood so little abt it.

quotes

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
-- James Russell Lowell

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
-- Garth Brooks

I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.
-- Unknown

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert A. Heinlein